Champions League Dreams
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4.6 • 24 Ratings
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Publisher Description
This is a stimulating and deeply insightful football narrative by Rafa Benitez which focuses on the legendary manager's dramatic six Champions League campaigns with Liverpool. Rafa expertly navigates fans through intriguing European adventures that embrace the triumph and despair of two Champions League finals, three semi-finals and five quarter-finals in what was a golden era for the Anfield club - an era that supporters felt gave them their pride back after years in the wilderness. What sets this apart is the unique ways in which Rafa allows fans into his high-pressured world, the fascinating glimpses he offers of a top manager's thought processes and decision making during the cut and thrust of a high-octane European campaign. Understand how a great manager prepares for, then executes, a master-plan for European success.
Customer Reviews
Genius
He clears the fog from tactics. I can't put it better than Didi Hamann:
"In my mind he is pure managerial genius.
Even if Rafa had forcibly removed me from Anfield, he’d still be near the top of my managerial list. Sometimes, talking to Rafa was like when your car windscreen’s iced up on a winter’s morning. You can’t see anything, but when you switch on the de-icer gradually you start to see through the impenetrable barrier of ice, a hazy picture emerges and within two minutes you have a full Technicolor image."
This book enables you to see the Technicolor.
100% buy!!!
Well reviewed by those who should know
According to Tony Barrett of the Times, who is one of the more knowledgable and well connected journalists on all matters LFC, this book is a thoroughly good read. It is the most tactical of books of this genre which Liverpool fans will love but neutrals may find it focuses on history given LFC's current chasm from its next champions league qualification. Looking forward to it.